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Page 2B COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN, Sunday, May 4, 1980
Dear Abby:
Former fatty says hippos are dishonest
DEAR ABBY: This is for the woman who ad-mits
to being 65 pounds ( 29 kilograms ) over-weight
but insists that she is " happy, popular,
good- lookin- g, well- dress- ed and couldn't care
less what other people think." If she really be-lieved
this, she is not being honest with her-self,
so how can she be honest with others?
I have yet to meet an obese person who was
totally honest. Generally speaking, they cheat
on diets, lie about how much they eat and what
they weigh. They even lie about having a thy-roid
condition.
Men prefer feminine women, and there's
nothing feminine about hippos. They can't
walk ladylike, they can't sit ladylike and God
forbid they should have to run. And if they
were to see a moving picture of themselves
walking away from the camera, they would
never wear tight pants in public again.
In case you think I'm a skinny person with
no understanding of the fat person's pain, let
me assure you that I am a former fatty who is
constantly fighting the battle the bulge.
BEEN THERE
DEAR BEEN THERE: Not all fat people fit
your stereotype. Some are honest, self- confid- ent
and able to accept themselves as they
are. Witness " The National Association to Aid
Fat People," a newly formed organization
dedicated to fighting discrimination against
obese people, assuring them that fat is fine
and nothing to be ashamed of.
DEAR ABBY: A reader complained, " Al-though
my boyfriend is very affectionate, I
wonder why he never says, ' I love you.' "
You replied, " Perhaps he isn't ready to
make a commitment yet." Abby, I am defi-nitely
ready to make a commitment to my
girlfriend, but I, too, find it very difficult to
say, " I love you."
In college, I had a Japanese roommate who
said, " If a Japanese boy were to tell a girl he
loved her, she would become very uncomfort-able
and wonder what he expected of her in re-turn.
Oriental men express their affection in
more subtle ways such as doing nice things for
a girl or giving her small gifts."
ft Abigail Van Buren
He also said that when American couples
kiss in public in Japan, it causes a great deal
of embarrassment and curiosity among the
Japanese, who are unaccustomed to such a
display of emotion in public.
I think we Westerners would do well to adopt
the Oriental custom of keeping one's emotions
under control.
Z. A. R.
DEAR Z. A. R.: It's true that controlling one's
emotions certainly would reduce the incidence
of accidents among the Occidents as it does
among the Oriental. But it will never play hi
Peoria, Paris, Palm Springs or Passaic.
DEAR ABBY: I ama grandmother, and as
one might expect, I am placed in competition
with the other grandmother. I don't believe in
buying my grandchildren's love by bringing
them presents every time I go to see them. .
However, the other grandmother does, which
is her privilege. We all live in the same city.
The grandchildren have been conditioned by
the other grandma to expect a gift every time
a grandparent visits. I really love them, but I
want them to be glad to see me for myself
not for what I bring them.
I become slightly irritated when the little
ones invariably come running to greet me
with, " What did you bring me?" I refuse to
submit to this subtle form of blackmail. Any
suggestions?
NO GIFT GRANNY
DEAR GRANNY: Your grandchildren will
soon be conditioned to expect no gifts from
you. Hang in there and concentrate on culti-vating
their love in other ways until their val-ues
mature as they will in time.
Do you have questions about sex, love, drugs
and the pain of growing up? Get Abby's new,
booklet: " What Every Teen- age- r Ought To
Know." Send $ 2 and a long, stamped ( 28
cents), self- address- ed envelope to: Abby, Teen
Booklet, 132 Lasky Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif.
90212.
I
-- Up a& d Coming .
The Columbia Missourian wants
to publish notices about your club's
upcoming events. In order to ap-pear
in Sunday's Up and Coming
Column, the notices must be re-ceived
in the People department no
later than 10: 30 Wednesday morn-ing.
Please address your notices to :
Up and Coming
People section
Columbia Missourian
P. O. Box 917
Columbia, MO 65205.
Fortnightly
Fortnightly has scheduled the fol-lowing
activities for the week: Cou-ture:
Noon Monday at the home of
Joyce Pickett, 608 Westmount Ave.
Gourmet Study Group: 8 p. m. Mon-day
at the home of Kitty Harris. 801
Cowan Drive. Gourmands: 9: 15 a. m.
Tuesday at the home of Carol
Froeklke, 2211 RidgeEeld Road. In-termediate
Bridge: Noon Tuesday.
For more information call 445- 619- 0.
Feastive Feasters: 7: 30 p. m.
Wednesday at the home of Jan Pat-terson,
4105 Wappel Drive. Bess
Schooling Antiques: 9: 30 a. m.
Thursday at the home of Sally Ste-phenson,
5 Danforth Circle.
Neo- Fig- ht
Neo- Fig- ht will meet at 7: 30 p. m.
Tuesday at St. Andrews Lutheran
Church. 914 West Boulevard S. The
program will include a Christmas
bazaar and officer election. Neo- Fig- ht
wfll sponsor a garage sale
from 8 a. m. to 3 pjn. Saturday at
2208 Iris Drive to raise money to
buy life- savin- g equipment for new-borns.
Retired Employees
The Columbia chapter of the As- socat- ion
of Retired Missouri State
Employees will meet at 11: 30 a. m.
Friday at Wyatt's Cafeteria in the
Biscayne MalL
Safety Council
The Columbia Safety Council will
hold an awards banquet at 6: 30 p. m.
Tuesday at the Heritage House Res-taurant,
1010 1-- 70 Drive SW. Jerry
Nichols, Ashland, will receive an
award for saving an employee's
life. Nanette Laughrey, Columbia
Municipal Court judge, will speak
on a driver- improveme- nt program.
Winners of the May Allen Memorial
Poster Contest also will be an-nounced.
Garden Club
Heimweg Garden Club will meet
at 12: 30 p. m. Thursday at the home
of Deva McGill, 104 Gipson St The
program will be on flower arrang-ing.
DAR
The Daughters of the American
Revolution will meet at 2 pjn. Sat-urday
at the Community United
Methodist Church, 1600 W. Broad-way,
to elect officers. University bi-ology
professor Clair L. Kucera will
discuss tall- gra- ss prairies.
Singletarians
The Singletarians will meet at
7: 30 p. m. Tuesday at the Ecumeni-cal
Center, 813 Maryland Ave., to
plan summer and fall activities.
For more information call 882- 062- 2.
Pi Lambda Theta
The Central Missouri chapter of
Pi Lambda Theta will install new
officers at 3: 45 p. m. Thursday at the
home of Ella Lambert, 4112 Faurot
Drive. For mere information call
445- 523- 3.
Retired Persons
The American Association of Re-tired
Persons will hold a workshop
from 9: 30 a. m. to 3: 30 p. m. Thurs-day
at Wyatt's Cafeteria in Bis-cayne
Mall.
PEO
Chapter JJ of the PEO will meet
at 7: 45 p. m. Tuesday at the home of
Martha Underwood, 1608 Princeton
Drive. Chapter HK of the PEO will
meet at 8 p. m. Monday at the home
of Mrs. J. M. Poehlman, 1819
Ridgemart St.
Strawn- of- Lit- e
The Strawn- of- Li- te Extension
Club will meet at 1 p. m. Thursday
at the home of Mary Alice Brown,
Route 5. The program will be " Se-lecting
Color for the Home," fol-lowed
by a white elephant and plant
sale.
National Secretaries
The National Secretaries Associa-tion
International will meet at 6: 30
p. m. Wednesday at Haden House
Restaurant, 4515 Highway 63 N. Of-ficers
for 1980- 8- 1 will be elected. For
more information and reservations
call 874- 459- 7.
Adoption Meeting
The Missouri Division of Family
Services will hold a meeting at 7
pjn. Monday in the conference
room of the Eastgate Building, 2100
E. Broadway. Anyone interested in
adoption should attend. For more
information call 442- 619- 1.
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Buy an extra pair of wheels for your car
and have your snow tires mounted on them
permanently. What you save on the twice- year- ly
cost of remounting and wheel balancing
can pay for the wheels in a few years.
Buy quality brand- nam- e auto parts.
Though they costmore than " bargain" parts,
they're a better buy because their mark- u- p
from wholesale price is often smaller and the
parts themselves wear and perform better.
- Save on tire wear by taking it easy
around curves. The faster and sharper the
turn, the more stress you put on tire edges.
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People Section
Cotambia Misaeariaa
P. O. Box 917 ,
Colombia, HO CSZ&
Refrigerated vial a lifesaving device
ByRussMaki
Missourian staff writer
The whoop of an ambulance siren
shatters the peace of a residential
neighborhood in Columbia. A handful
of curious homemakers emerge from
nearby houses, and the flashing lights
stop in front of a single- famil- y dwell-ing.
Boone County paramedics leap from
the emergency vehicle and rush into
the house to aid the stricken person in-side.
As one paramedic applies emer-gency
lifesaving techniques, the other
dashes for the refrigerator.
County residents don't need to worry
about ambulances full of cold- be- er
raiders, however. The trip to the re-frigerator
is in response to a decal on
the icebox door notifying the paramed-ics
that valuable medical information,
encapsulated in a small plastic bottle,
is inside.
The bottle, known as the '" vial of
life," is a lifesaving aid provided by
the Boone County Council on Aging for
the county's senior citizens. Taped to
the inside of a refrigerator door, the
l ml
vial contains a thumbnail medical his-tory
that includes blood type, allergies,
a list of medications that the vial's
owner is taking and other vital infor-mation.
The County Council on Aging began
distributing the vials about 11 months
ago, according to outreach volunteer
worker Karen Neely. " We've given out
about 2,500 vials in the county so far in
conjunction with the 19 other counties
in central Missouri," she says. Re--
cords of the Central Missouri Agency
on Aging state that about a third of the
elderly residents of Boone County are
currently taking part in the program,
while some surrounding counties have
enjoyed positive responses ap-proaching
100 percent.
The placement of the vial in refriger-ators,
Ms. Neely explains, stems from
its popularity as a kitchen appliance.
" Almost everybody has a refrigerator,
and it's almost always in a place where
it's easy to get at," she says. " The ob-ject
of the vial is to have appropriate
information in a place where it's easy
to get at, so the refrigerator is usually
a good spot."
Each participant in the Vial of Life
program receives an information sheet
that he cuts into two duplicate halves.
One half goes into his wallet or pocket- -'
book; the other half goes into the vial.
While all of the information is impor-tant,
council spokesmen say, a list of
allergies and medications can be the
difference between life and death once
paramedics begin administering po-tent
lifesaving drugs.
" The critical part, and the part I
usually suggest that people mark in
red, is the list of drugs that the person
is taking," says Gene Oborn, another
council outreach worker. " Mixtures of
certain drugs can often spell disaster."
" One of our big problems is that peo-ple
sometimes mix over- the- count- er
and prescription drugs, not realizing
that such combinations can be danger-ous,"
adds Ms. Neely. " Situations like
that can create an emergency in them-selves."
Because of their concern over
possible drug reactions, outreach
workers and other vial distributors
hand out a pamphlet on the dangers of
mixing medications in order to under-line
the danger of such practices.
Participation in the Vial of life pro-gram
is free, compliments of the
Boone County Council on Aging.
Interested members of the county's
elderly community can obtain more in-formation
on the Vial of Life by con-tacting
Karen Neely at the Columbia
Public library, the Visiting Nurses
and Health Nurses associations, the
Columbia Fire Department, Meals on
Wheels or by calling the Boone County
Council on Aging at 443- 111- 1.
Healthy Baby Week stresses education programs
Olympics will be held in Columbia
this year, but the events will be a little
different.
Contestants will give their all in such
events as smiling, rolling over, the 2- y- ard
( 1.8- mete- r) crawl and the 8- y- ard
( 7.3neter) toddle, and these are just
some of the events in the Baby Olym-pics
to be held May 17.
The Olympics are sponsored by the
Booneslick Chapter of the March of
Dimes and Neo- Figh- t, a non- prof- it or-ganization
that purchases lifesaving
equipment for critically- il- l newborns.
Neo- Fig- ht will present a layette to
the first baby born in Columbia during
the week.
Mayor Clyde Wilson will sign a proc-lamation
Thursday declaring May 11- -
j -- i . u'- j- - zx--" j- r- i zt j rar-- a T-- Ji m
17 Healthy Baby Week. The week is de-signed
to focus public attention on pre-natal
and infant care through health- educati- on
programs.
The Baby Olympics are part of the
Healthy Baby Fair Saturday at the
Parkade Plaza and highlight the close
of Healthy Baby Week. The fair will
feature information booths and films.
Groups participating in the fair in-clude
the Le Leche League, the Daniel
Boone Regional Library, the Missouri
Division of Family Services, the City- Coun- ty
Health Department and the
Women Infants and Children Program.
Appropriate prenatal care and coun-seling
are necessary for women of all
ages, but the high incidence of adoles-cent
pregnancy deserves special atten
tion, says Mary Quain, executive di-rector
of the Booneslick March of
Dimes.
Mothers under 17 deliver a dispro-portionate
number of dead and dam-aged
babies, she said. little or late
prenatal care and lack of nutritional
guidance are contributing factors, she
added.
" Studies from around the country
show that if a woman goes for prenatal
care early in pregnancy and continues
regular visits, her chances of having a
healthy baby weighing more than 5Vs
pounds ( 2.5 kilograms) are greatly im-proved,"
Ms. Quain said.
" Five and one- ha- lf pounds ( 2.5 ki-lograms)
is the dividing line between
low and normal birthweight, a distinc-tion
that can have adverse, long- ter- m
impact on the infant's development,"
she said.
For more information about Healthy
Baby Week or the Healthy Baby Fair,
call 449- 057- 5.

Page 2B COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN, Sunday, May 4, 1980
Dear Abby:
Former fatty says hippos are dishonest
DEAR ABBY: This is for the woman who ad-mits
to being 65 pounds ( 29 kilograms ) over-weight
but insists that she is " happy, popular,
good- lookin- g, well- dress- ed and couldn't care
less what other people think." If she really be-lieved
this, she is not being honest with her-self,
so how can she be honest with others?
I have yet to meet an obese person who was
totally honest. Generally speaking, they cheat
on diets, lie about how much they eat and what
they weigh. They even lie about having a thy-roid
condition.
Men prefer feminine women, and there's
nothing feminine about hippos. They can't
walk ladylike, they can't sit ladylike and God
forbid they should have to run. And if they
were to see a moving picture of themselves
walking away from the camera, they would
never wear tight pants in public again.
In case you think I'm a skinny person with
no understanding of the fat person's pain, let
me assure you that I am a former fatty who is
constantly fighting the battle the bulge.
BEEN THERE
DEAR BEEN THERE: Not all fat people fit
your stereotype. Some are honest, self- confid- ent
and able to accept themselves as they
are. Witness " The National Association to Aid
Fat People," a newly formed organization
dedicated to fighting discrimination against
obese people, assuring them that fat is fine
and nothing to be ashamed of.
DEAR ABBY: A reader complained, " Al-though
my boyfriend is very affectionate, I
wonder why he never says, ' I love you.' "
You replied, " Perhaps he isn't ready to
make a commitment yet." Abby, I am defi-nitely
ready to make a commitment to my
girlfriend, but I, too, find it very difficult to
say, " I love you."
In college, I had a Japanese roommate who
said, " If a Japanese boy were to tell a girl he
loved her, she would become very uncomfort-able
and wonder what he expected of her in re-turn.
Oriental men express their affection in
more subtle ways such as doing nice things for
a girl or giving her small gifts."
ft Abigail Van Buren
He also said that when American couples
kiss in public in Japan, it causes a great deal
of embarrassment and curiosity among the
Japanese, who are unaccustomed to such a
display of emotion in public.
I think we Westerners would do well to adopt
the Oriental custom of keeping one's emotions
under control.
Z. A. R.
DEAR Z. A. R.: It's true that controlling one's
emotions certainly would reduce the incidence
of accidents among the Occidents as it does
among the Oriental. But it will never play hi
Peoria, Paris, Palm Springs or Passaic.
DEAR ABBY: I ama grandmother, and as
one might expect, I am placed in competition
with the other grandmother. I don't believe in
buying my grandchildren's love by bringing
them presents every time I go to see them. .
However, the other grandmother does, which
is her privilege. We all live in the same city.
The grandchildren have been conditioned by
the other grandma to expect a gift every time
a grandparent visits. I really love them, but I
want them to be glad to see me for myself
not for what I bring them.
I become slightly irritated when the little
ones invariably come running to greet me
with, " What did you bring me?" I refuse to
submit to this subtle form of blackmail. Any
suggestions?
NO GIFT GRANNY
DEAR GRANNY: Your grandchildren will
soon be conditioned to expect no gifts from
you. Hang in there and concentrate on culti-vating
their love in other ways until their val-ues
mature as they will in time.
Do you have questions about sex, love, drugs
and the pain of growing up? Get Abby's new,
booklet: " What Every Teen- age- r Ought To
Know." Send $ 2 and a long, stamped ( 28
cents), self- address- ed envelope to: Abby, Teen
Booklet, 132 Lasky Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif.
90212.
I
-- Up a& d Coming .
The Columbia Missourian wants
to publish notices about your club's
upcoming events. In order to ap-pear
in Sunday's Up and Coming
Column, the notices must be re-ceived
in the People department no
later than 10: 30 Wednesday morn-ing.
Please address your notices to :
Up and Coming
People section
Columbia Missourian
P. O. Box 917
Columbia, MO 65205.
Fortnightly
Fortnightly has scheduled the fol-lowing
activities for the week: Cou-ture:
Noon Monday at the home of
Joyce Pickett, 608 Westmount Ave.
Gourmet Study Group: 8 p. m. Mon-day
at the home of Kitty Harris. 801
Cowan Drive. Gourmands: 9: 15 a. m.
Tuesday at the home of Carol
Froeklke, 2211 RidgeEeld Road. In-termediate
Bridge: Noon Tuesday.
For more information call 445- 619- 0.
Feastive Feasters: 7: 30 p. m.
Wednesday at the home of Jan Pat-terson,
4105 Wappel Drive. Bess
Schooling Antiques: 9: 30 a. m.
Thursday at the home of Sally Ste-phenson,
5 Danforth Circle.
Neo- Fig- ht
Neo- Fig- ht will meet at 7: 30 p. m.
Tuesday at St. Andrews Lutheran
Church. 914 West Boulevard S. The
program will include a Christmas
bazaar and officer election. Neo- Fig- ht
wfll sponsor a garage sale
from 8 a. m. to 3 pjn. Saturday at
2208 Iris Drive to raise money to
buy life- savin- g equipment for new-borns.
Retired Employees
The Columbia chapter of the As- socat- ion
of Retired Missouri State
Employees will meet at 11: 30 a. m.
Friday at Wyatt's Cafeteria in the
Biscayne MalL
Safety Council
The Columbia Safety Council will
hold an awards banquet at 6: 30 p. m.
Tuesday at the Heritage House Res-taurant,
1010 1-- 70 Drive SW. Jerry
Nichols, Ashland, will receive an
award for saving an employee's
life. Nanette Laughrey, Columbia
Municipal Court judge, will speak
on a driver- improveme- nt program.
Winners of the May Allen Memorial
Poster Contest also will be an-nounced.
Garden Club
Heimweg Garden Club will meet
at 12: 30 p. m. Thursday at the home
of Deva McGill, 104 Gipson St The
program will be on flower arrang-ing.
DAR
The Daughters of the American
Revolution will meet at 2 pjn. Sat-urday
at the Community United
Methodist Church, 1600 W. Broad-way,
to elect officers. University bi-ology
professor Clair L. Kucera will
discuss tall- gra- ss prairies.
Singletarians
The Singletarians will meet at
7: 30 p. m. Tuesday at the Ecumeni-cal
Center, 813 Maryland Ave., to
plan summer and fall activities.
For more information call 882- 062- 2.
Pi Lambda Theta
The Central Missouri chapter of
Pi Lambda Theta will install new
officers at 3: 45 p. m. Thursday at the
home of Ella Lambert, 4112 Faurot
Drive. For mere information call
445- 523- 3.
Retired Persons
The American Association of Re-tired
Persons will hold a workshop
from 9: 30 a. m. to 3: 30 p. m. Thurs-day
at Wyatt's Cafeteria in Bis-cayne
Mall.
PEO
Chapter JJ of the PEO will meet
at 7: 45 p. m. Tuesday at the home of
Martha Underwood, 1608 Princeton
Drive. Chapter HK of the PEO will
meet at 8 p. m. Monday at the home
of Mrs. J. M. Poehlman, 1819
Ridgemart St.
Strawn- of- Lit- e
The Strawn- of- Li- te Extension
Club will meet at 1 p. m. Thursday
at the home of Mary Alice Brown,
Route 5. The program will be " Se-lecting
Color for the Home," fol-lowed
by a white elephant and plant
sale.
National Secretaries
The National Secretaries Associa-tion
International will meet at 6: 30
p. m. Wednesday at Haden House
Restaurant, 4515 Highway 63 N. Of-ficers
for 1980- 8- 1 will be elected. For
more information and reservations
call 874- 459- 7.
Adoption Meeting
The Missouri Division of Family
Services will hold a meeting at 7
pjn. Monday in the conference
room of the Eastgate Building, 2100
E. Broadway. Anyone interested in
adoption should attend. For more
information call 442- 619- 1.
8 one hour fBlWll
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3 2736 Peris Rd. HHlIlfwfiflHGI PH 474- 863- 3 pBBBSBmtAAmJSSBBBISB
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Classes Enroll Now S
Basic Beginning 1 00pm Thurscas lew 7 weeks beginning May8( tut there's still time! Su
i. m Bic Banning 7 30 to 9.30 pm. Wednesdays ( or 7 weeks beginning May 21. S? f?- - Appliqua Wall Hanging 10- OOtonoonSaturcaysfor4we6ksbe-ginning
May 17. B
2fe Call for information or enrollment JAt
2 1004 West Worley 874- 231- 8 SK
2 Mon- SaL10-- 5 . Thurs. till 8 p. m.
Do you consider cooking to be
an art a chore a mystery?
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The Red Paisley
A Downtown Tradition. Renewed
1 0 1 7 E. Broadwoy Open 9-- 5, Momtay- Satvrda- y
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Cotambia Misaeariaa
P. O. Box 917 ,
Colombia, HO CSZ&
Refrigerated vial a lifesaving device
ByRussMaki
Missourian staff writer
The whoop of an ambulance siren
shatters the peace of a residential
neighborhood in Columbia. A handful
of curious homemakers emerge from
nearby houses, and the flashing lights
stop in front of a single- famil- y dwell-ing.
Boone County paramedics leap from
the emergency vehicle and rush into
the house to aid the stricken person in-side.
As one paramedic applies emer-gency
lifesaving techniques, the other
dashes for the refrigerator.
County residents don't need to worry
about ambulances full of cold- be- er
raiders, however. The trip to the re-frigerator
is in response to a decal on
the icebox door notifying the paramed-ics
that valuable medical information,
encapsulated in a small plastic bottle,
is inside.
The bottle, known as the '" vial of
life," is a lifesaving aid provided by
the Boone County Council on Aging for
the county's senior citizens. Taped to
the inside of a refrigerator door, the
l ml
vial contains a thumbnail medical his-tory
that includes blood type, allergies,
a list of medications that the vial's
owner is taking and other vital infor-mation.
The County Council on Aging began
distributing the vials about 11 months
ago, according to outreach volunteer
worker Karen Neely. " We've given out
about 2,500 vials in the county so far in
conjunction with the 19 other counties
in central Missouri," she says. Re--
cords of the Central Missouri Agency
on Aging state that about a third of the
elderly residents of Boone County are
currently taking part in the program,
while some surrounding counties have
enjoyed positive responses ap-proaching
100 percent.
The placement of the vial in refriger-ators,
Ms. Neely explains, stems from
its popularity as a kitchen appliance.
" Almost everybody has a refrigerator,
and it's almost always in a place where
it's easy to get at," she says. " The ob-ject
of the vial is to have appropriate
information in a place where it's easy
to get at, so the refrigerator is usually
a good spot."
Each participant in the Vial of Life
program receives an information sheet
that he cuts into two duplicate halves.
One half goes into his wallet or pocket- -'
book; the other half goes into the vial.
While all of the information is impor-tant,
council spokesmen say, a list of
allergies and medications can be the
difference between life and death once
paramedics begin administering po-tent
lifesaving drugs.
" The critical part, and the part I
usually suggest that people mark in
red, is the list of drugs that the person
is taking," says Gene Oborn, another
council outreach worker. " Mixtures of
certain drugs can often spell disaster."
" One of our big problems is that peo-ple
sometimes mix over- the- count- er
and prescription drugs, not realizing
that such combinations can be danger-ous,"
adds Ms. Neely. " Situations like
that can create an emergency in them-selves."
Because of their concern over
possible drug reactions, outreach
workers and other vial distributors
hand out a pamphlet on the dangers of
mixing medications in order to under-line
the danger of such practices.
Participation in the Vial of life pro-gram
is free, compliments of the
Boone County Council on Aging.
Interested members of the county's
elderly community can obtain more in-formation
on the Vial of Life by con-tacting
Karen Neely at the Columbia
Public library, the Visiting Nurses
and Health Nurses associations, the
Columbia Fire Department, Meals on
Wheels or by calling the Boone County
Council on Aging at 443- 111- 1.
Healthy Baby Week stresses education programs
Olympics will be held in Columbia
this year, but the events will be a little
different.
Contestants will give their all in such
events as smiling, rolling over, the 2- y- ard
( 1.8- mete- r) crawl and the 8- y- ard
( 7.3neter) toddle, and these are just
some of the events in the Baby Olym-pics
to be held May 17.
The Olympics are sponsored by the
Booneslick Chapter of the March of
Dimes and Neo- Figh- t, a non- prof- it or-ganization
that purchases lifesaving
equipment for critically- il- l newborns.
Neo- Fig- ht will present a layette to
the first baby born in Columbia during
the week.
Mayor Clyde Wilson will sign a proc-lamation
Thursday declaring May 11- -
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17 Healthy Baby Week. The week is de-signed
to focus public attention on pre-natal
and infant care through health- educati- on
programs.
The Baby Olympics are part of the
Healthy Baby Fair Saturday at the
Parkade Plaza and highlight the close
of Healthy Baby Week. The fair will
feature information booths and films.
Groups participating in the fair in-clude
the Le Leche League, the Daniel
Boone Regional Library, the Missouri
Division of Family Services, the City- Coun- ty
Health Department and the
Women Infants and Children Program.
Appropriate prenatal care and coun-seling
are necessary for women of all
ages, but the high incidence of adoles-cent
pregnancy deserves special atten
tion, says Mary Quain, executive di-rector
of the Booneslick March of
Dimes.
Mothers under 17 deliver a dispro-portionate
number of dead and dam-aged
babies, she said. little or late
prenatal care and lack of nutritional
guidance are contributing factors, she
added.
" Studies from around the country
show that if a woman goes for prenatal
care early in pregnancy and continues
regular visits, her chances of having a
healthy baby weighing more than 5Vs
pounds ( 2.5 kilograms) are greatly im-proved,"
Ms. Quain said.
" Five and one- ha- lf pounds ( 2.5 ki-lograms)
is the dividing line between
low and normal birthweight, a distinc-tion
that can have adverse, long- ter- m
impact on the infant's development,"
she said.
For more information about Healthy
Baby Week or the Healthy Baby Fair,
call 449- 057- 5.